Amy asked Angus Watson:

Did you write all three books straight through, or have a break after each? If the second, and you published the first without having finished the second, did the publicity and publishing stuff distract you from writing the second one? At what point did you pitch to an agent?

Angus Watson I wrote all three books straight through, but while writing them I moved house twice, got married, had a baby, continued my new obsession of photographing the landscape around Las Vegas (you can see some of that work on my Twitter Page @LasVegasHood) and went on holiday a couple of times, so it wasn’t all nose to the keyboard.
Publicity for the first book, which came out in September 2014, did get in the way of writing the third book, the first draft of which was due shortly afterwards. I hadn't realised how much time-consuming work there would be. For the next two books, I’ll make sure to have no other major projects coinciding with publication date.
I pitched to an agent pretty soon after I started writing Age of Iron (back when it was called Iron Age), with the standard 20,000 words and a synopsis. She signed me up, but advised that I write the whole thing and then suggested some changes before she showed it to publishers. So the agent got only a rough idea of the book, but it was effectively a second draft before publishers saw it.

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